I survived a landmine. I tried to take my life twice because I thought my life didn’t have any value. I thought everything had ended. But I survived for a reason.

I created an organisation five years ago for indigenous women victims of the conflict. We work with women to keep alive different arts and craft practices. The drawings and the eyebrow artwork that I have on my face, that’s part of our ancestral practices.

The women use different colours and different designs to tell their stories. They express different emotions through their crafts; it might be joy; it might be sadness.

I want to have recognition of our community here, to be recognised by the minister of interior, because these are women who are victims of the armed conflict.